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Sip it, my darling, 't was ordered for thee."
He raises his glass, "A toi, Mimi!"
The garçon shudders, for nothing is there
In the lady's place but an empty chair.
But still, with an air of fierce unrest,
The vicomte addresses an unseen guest.
"Leave us, Antoine: we have much to say,
And time is precious to me to-day."
When the garçon was gone he sprang up
with a start:

"Mimi is dead of a broken heart.
Could I think, when she gave it with gen-
erous joy,

A woman's heart such a fragile toy?
Her trim little figure no longer I see!
Would I were lying with thee, Mimi!
For what is life but a hell to me?
What splendor and wealth but misery ?"
A jet of flame and a whirl of smoke!
A detonation the silence broke.
The landlord enters, and lying there
Is the dead vicomte, with a stony glare
Rigidly fixed on an empty chair.
"Il faut avertir le commissaire!
Ma foi! Chez Brébant ces choses sont rares!”

FRANCIS ALEXANDER DURIVAGE

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1 See BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, p. 790.

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